I should have done more, admits Vajpayee
NEW DELHI, MAY 1. The Vajpayee Government eventually won the battle of numbers in Tuesday's marathon and often acrimonious debate on Gujarat under Rule 184 in the Lok Sabha but lost the debate. When the Samajwadi party-sponsored censure motion ...
Rs. 150 cr. for rehabilitation
NEW DELHI, MAY 1.The Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, today announced a Rs.150 crore rehabilitation package for the victims of the communal carnage in Gujarat. This includes assistance for reconstruction and repair of damaged houses and shops in ...
`Yes' for Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, MAY 1.Amidst charges of rigging and serious irregularities by independent observers, the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, was declared by the Pakistan Election Commission a winner in the presidential referendum. While the ...
Let's make a new Gujarat : Sonia
AHMEDABAD, MAY 1. The Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, today came down heavily on the ruling BJP as it stood for ``corruption, communalism and mal-administration.'' Addressing a farmers' rally at Porbandar, Ms. Gandhi condemned both the ...
No change in our stand: TDP
HYDERABAD, MAY 1.The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party president, N. Chandrababu Naidu, says that his party will continue to press for the resignation of the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi. Talking to mediapersons who ...
NHRC extends deadline
NEW DELHI, MAY 1.Expressing its anguish over the Gujarat Government's failure to submit its final report by April 30 on the gruesome incidents in the State, the National Human Rights Commission has granted it two weeks time for doing so. The ...
Taj security with CISF
NEW DELHI, MAY 1.On Supreme Court's directions, the Central Industrial Security Force took over the security of the Taj Mahal in Agra from this morning. The CISF wills deploy 150 personnel in all ranks with a Deputy Commandant in charge. It ...
Chinese gesture
BEIGING, MAY 1. Amid tight security, China today reopened the Khunjerab Pass, the only land route, on the Sino-Pakistani border, nearly seven months after it was closed following the terror attacks on U.S. The people of the two countries will ...
Bail for RIL officials
NEW DELHI, MAY 1. A Delhi court today granted bail to two senior executives of Reliance Industries facing prosecution in an Official Secrets Act case. The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Sangita Dhingra Sehegal, had on Monday sent the Reliance ...
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